evacuate
English
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editevacuate (third-person singular simple present evacuates, present participle evacuating, simple past and past participle evacuated)
- (transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from
- the soldiers evacuated the fortress
- The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.
- 1757, Edmund Burke, The Abridgement of the History of England:
- The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
- To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
- The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.
- 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:
- Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.
- To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
- The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.
- (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
- 1825, James Marsh, Preliminary Essay to Aids to Reflection:
- Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important doctrines.
- To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
- 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization[1], Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 1:
- In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; [...]
- To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
- to evacuate a contract or marriage
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
- it would not evacuate a marriage after cohabitation and actual consummation
Derived terms
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edit- evacuation (noun)
Descendants
editTranslations
editto move out of an unsafe location into safety
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to cause to leave or withdraw from
to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
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to make empty; to deprive
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Italian
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /e.vaˈkwa.te/, (traditional) /e.va.kuˈa.te/[1]
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: e‧va‧cuà‧te, (traditional) e‧va‧cu‧à‧te
Etymology 1
editVerb
editevacuate
- inflection of evacuare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editevacuate f pl
Adjective
editevacuate f pl
Etymology 3
editNoun
editevacuate f pl
References
edit- ^ evacuo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin
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editēvacuāte
Spanish
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editevacuate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of evacuar combined with te
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